“with the two Koreas celebrating a moment of unity, the United States was left outmaneuvered by an adversary and out of step with an ally. ... Pence didn’t appear to even look in the direction of the North Korean delegation during the Friday event.”https://www.apnews.com/f32ab3cdadb34d61b5fdadee34247cb4 …
.@stephenWalt: "tendency to treat foes as inherently irrational has real costs"
- preventive war becomes a more attractive option
- it can blind us to the real reasons behind an adversary’s behavior
- it makes normal diplomacy seem like a waste of timehttp://foreignpolicy.com/2018/06/14/never-call-kim-jong-un-crazy-again/ …
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Thorough, informative, balanced account by
@TimothyS of Trump and Kim Jong-un's "unprecedented meeting"after months of intensive negotiations that began when Kim unexpectedly invited Trump "to meet and settle their vast differences"https://www.thenation.com/article/trump-meets-kim-averting-threat-nuclear-war-us-pundits-furious/ …Show this thread -
“the way we treat South Korea is as almost a colony. ... it’s just incredible to read people like that saying, just assuming that South Korea does not have the sovereign right to try to unify and reconcile within its own country.”https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1034966728307032064?s=21 …
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"President Moon Jae-in became the first South Korean leader to give a speech to the North Korean public ... Mr Moon is on a three-day visit to Pyongyang where he signed a landmark agreement with Kim Jong-un."https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45578491 …
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President Moon Jae-in's speech in front of 150,000 North Korean citizens, at Rungrado 1st of May Stadium, was the first time a South Korean head of state ever addressed North Korean citizens directly [ENG subtitles]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmNQ89I5GIc …
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@TimothyS: "the leaders of North and South Korea [...] sent an unmistakable message that the two Koreas have moved into a new phase of reconciliation and are ready to overcome the barriers that have kept them divided since 1945."https://www.thenation.com/article/moon-and-kim-stage-an-exuberant-summit-in-pyongyang/ …Show this thread -
"The two Koreas will start clearing mines from the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on October 1 as a first step after they agreed to disarm the border area starting with land mines."http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2018/10/356_256216.html …
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